The FBI was created in 1910 out of concern local law enforcement across the country had become corrupt. How tragic that the Bureau itself now has become the poster child for corruption in law enforcement.

8.
Remember that credit is money.
~Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), a Founding Father of the United States, was a printer, writer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.

9.
If you would like to know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
~Benjamin Franklin

8.
(1) A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
(2) A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the first law.
(3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
~Isaac Asimov, “The Three Laws of Robotics,” in I, Robot (1950), Frontispiece. Isaac Asimov (born Isaak Yudovich Ozimov; Russian: Исаак Юдович Озимов; 1920 – 1992) was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. His works have been published in nine out of ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System.

9.
A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certain eminent historian of science. At the time I could only regard him with tolerant condescension.
I was sorry of the man who, it seemed to me, was forced to hover about the edges of science. He was compelled to shiver endlessly in the outskirts, getting only feeble warmth from the distant sun of science- in-progress; while I, just beginning my research, was bathed in the heady liquid heat up at the very center of the glow.
In a lifetime of being wrong at many a point, I was never more wrong. It was I, not he, who was wandering in the periphery. It was he, not I, who lived in the blaze.
I had fallen victim to the fallacy of the “growing edge”; the belief that only the very frontier of scientific advance counted; that everything that had been left behind by that advance was faded and dead.
But is that true? Because a tree in spring buds and comes greenly into leaf, are those leaves therefore the tree? If the newborn twigs and their leaves were all that existed, they would form a vague halo of green suspended in mid-air, but surely that is not the tree. The leaves, by themselves, are no more than trivial fluttering decoration. It is the trunk and limbs that give the tree its grandeur and the leaves themselves their meaning.
There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before. ‘If I have seen further than other men,’ said Isaac Newton, ‘it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.’
~Isaac Asimov, Adding A Dimension: Seventeen Essays on the History of Science (1964), Introduction

10.
An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.
~Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy (1951), Vol. 2, p. 207

Executed Criminals’ Last Words

You are going to hurt me, please don’t hurt me, just one more moment, I beg you!

~Madame du Barry, mistress of Louis XV, d. 1793 (guillotined)

Triumph of the Guillotine
By Nicolas Antoine Taunay

10.

Ray Jasper told his family to “take care of each other, stay strong and faithful to God.” He then thanked his supporters and told his daughter that he loved her and told her to “be strong, be positive, have a great life.” His final words were as follows: “Lord God almighty in heaven Jesus Christ see my spirit. Amen.”